A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.